Example sentences of "there for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rehearsed there for about two weeks — it was about 90 degrees in there ! ’ |
| 2 | We pulled into Coventry police station and instead of going to a cafe , as we had hoped , we got shut in one cell and left there for about two hours with the most revolting sandwiches you 've ever seen in your life . |
| 3 | I only worked there for about two months , I was so tired I was like a zombie . |
| 4 | He remained there for about two years before returning to England in July 1657 to take up a position as mathematics tutor to Joscelyne Percy , son of Algernon Percy , tenth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , at Petworth , an appointment which seems to have been due to the influence of the Puritan reformer Samuel Hartlib [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
| 6 | er and then I think Oh I was there for about two years after |
| 7 | I do n't suppose anything else out of the ordinary has happened there for about five hundred years , so the local people should be full of it for weeks . ’ |
| 8 | I lived down there for about five years . |
| 9 | I was just sitting there for about five minutes then she got up , then she , ooh , sat down , then she got up . |
| 10 | And , like , we left him there for about five minutes and we just did n't hear a thing |
| 11 | out for me and erm , when he went in on Monday , erm it was the other one the lad that actually owns it , so I was in there for about bloody half an hour and we came home with some samples and one that I quite liked it was up on the wall and he said that is my best selling Axminster that I had , and it was like , it was maybe it was a bit too busy , it was , it was greyey and it was all different other colours in it , but it was a lot of flowers on it , it was n't a traditional Axminster you see Mike loves these traditional Axminsters and he does n't really , he wo n't really entertain anything else , erm , anyway I brought that sample home and what else ? |
| 12 | In those days , scarlet fever victims had to go to the Isolation Hospital just outside the town , and remain there for about six weeks , until all the affected skin had peeled off . |
| 13 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 14 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
| 15 | I was only born there and I lived there for about six months and then got taken out . |
| 16 | I was on the circular sa saw there for about eight or ten years . |
| 17 | I think it 's the first birdie I 've made there for about nine years , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 19 | Whereas whereas if you did that to a grown up you 'd probably be in there for about thirty years or something . |
| 20 | Yes I , after I lost my daughter I had to go into erm , into the factory to make aeroplane pieces at Burnt Mill cos I was so bad with my nerves after I lost her , er just afternoons I had to go and then I was taken ill I could n't do it , well then after my erm , I got my family off to school I took a part time job in erm one of the factories making tea in the mornings for the office and coffees and that for the office and then in the afternoons I used to do the tea as well , I used to cycle there , I quite enjoyed it until my right hip started coming bad then I had to pack it in , but I was in there , I was there for about four years and I thoroughly enjoyed it you know making tea and that , I did n't have to take it round only collect the money to go round and collect the money , but used to have to put the trolley outside and they used to come and get their tea each one , of which they knew which was their mugs and cups ha , you know , I , I thoroughly enjoyed that job , really great |
| 21 | They stayed there for about twenty minutes , walked where once there had been fear and intimidation , tried to imagine it as it had been , wondered who 'd died there , whose dreams had been shattered . |
| 22 | Malcolm went in first and was there for about twenty minutes . |
| 23 | They 'll only be there for about twenty four hours , they 'll go for about a week but they 're spending most of it with er , Deborah down at erm , Bambury |
| 24 | well , she friend in the morning , so she goes to our friends so she 's there for about twenty minutes before they |
| 25 | With a colossal effort , she managed to hold it there for about ten seconds . |
| 26 | I sat there for about ten minutes and then I came out . |
| 27 | We got there for about ten to six . |
| 28 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
| 29 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 30 | I was only there for about three months and then I went to a modelling school . |